on the state of lebanon on which he has basically i.j. in the last couple of years israel has declared that hezbollah is the greatest threat facing israel so we're not talking about a conflict not talking about syria or even iran but our non-state organizations such as allah is not perceived as the greatest threats was from the. united nations troops had been stationed in southern lebanon since $978.00 their mandate to guarantee peace and security in the contested region but it proved an impossible task for a u.n. force that was far too small. in a pitiful state after the civil war and controlled by different religious groups the lebanese army existed in 9 only when 6 of its peacekeepers were killed in the war of 2006 the united nations changed its policy. since 2006 the un forces have had what is known as a robust mandate which allows the use of force if necessary since then they have been only rare and confrontations at the border both sides are upholding the 6 fire agreement to this day however a state of war still exists between israe

and lebanon on the blue line serves as a temporary solution. another unresolved issue is who the sheba farms belong to. an expired israel but lebanon lies claim to them exits to the hezbollah tunnels were discovered nima toula inside israel. television 150 kilometers south of the border with lebanon is israel's biggest city . and it now lies within the range of hezbollah missiles one of the factors behind the israel defense forces locating their center of operations deep underground beneath their headquarters. is around slender size means that a short reaction time to attacks from outside is deemed vital to its survival it's on a closely monitors the activities of hezbollah that analyses show that hezbollah has grown in strength partly through the experience it has gained through the war in neighboring syria. the israelis see hezbollah in a wider strategic context in their eyes the shiite militia is 1st and foremost a proxy for the implementation of a rainy and plans. in the opinion of numerous a. service iran is trying to establish a land brid

on june 6th $98.00 to $2.00 days of airstrikes israel its land invasion of lebanon. with the exception of stiff resistance put up by the defenders of the palestinian refugee camps in southern lebanon palestinian forces in general quickly collapsed commanders abandoned their fighters in the field and fled for safety artifact was living. in the edge out of it was incredulous kept on saying in all possible he couldn't believe the israelis were advancing so far so quickly he orders to for assistance later on i learned that he was very angry that there was no real resistance such i want to have sort of the the operational headquarters in the south seriously mess calculated the commanders believed that all was lost and left i went to arafat's headquarters in beirut and told him what happened he became agitated and started swearing. syrian forces in lebanon were drawn into the fighting an epic 3 day air battle left the syrian air force virtually decimated. unable to sustain such losses syria agreed a cease fire with israel within the 1st week of the invasion the palestinian

unlikely to israeli invasion of lebanon had been an open secret for some time the lebanon israel border had been a constant point of tension as palestinians and israelis dreda drugget and artillery fire and a fact had realized that it was only a matter of time before israel launched an all out attack go ahead. oh it's our our fault was the only one who believe that an israeli invasion which would reach beirut was inevitable how much you can buy the pillows military council and appoint a committee headed by the pillows chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians expected a repeat of the 1978 invasion and assault with limited objects. said that many there yeah. their belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond 40 kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june 6th $98.00 to $2.00 days of airstrikes israel its land invasion of lebanon. with the exception of stiff resistance

or very recently the german government refused to ban has been because of the group's presence in lebanon and in the lebanese parliament will germany's decision to hurt hezbollah's credibility among the lebanese people what do you think. let me put it this way germany. is a neutral and trusty partner. in the us to kate's. not at all between hezbollah and israel in the prisoners are sure according to this at least succeeded at least 2 times to find the law is that the pows the accord as well as well these. talks as i said and you talk to the world in july 2006 germany i don't under 50 soldiers in south lebanon you ask if it's known as units that occur if you do that you ask if he considers that you should 17 along and make that mistake made shock some are because germany according to his will not it's the closest you can friend to you know and as. you know money is also as a one off the it on commercial partners with iran you know it's interesting germany does have those ties with iran mr schindler syria has condemned germany's decision today how big of a role is hezbollah playing in confl

and lebanon re-imposes a stay-at-home order after a spike in the numbers.his shutdown is due to last four days. uslo, thank you for joining i'm claire pryde and we start with the french government announcing its marshall plan for the tourism industry which has taken a massive hit due to the coronavirus pandemic. it's going to inject 18 billion euros into the industry. the prime minister calling this unprecedented and necessary. tourism is a crucial part of france's economy representing more than 7% of gdp. [speaking french] claire: our correspondent discovering the story, she is that the that she e was at the front prime ministers office for the unveiling of that plan. >> the prime minister announcing the total of 18 billion euros in public aid for the hotel and restaurant sector, and unprecedented plan, really emphasizing the tourism which remains a national priority. you can feel that the prime minister was trying to reassure the sector and empathize with them. he said he understood that they are the first to close and they will be the last to open. on th

palestinian allies in the city of tripoli in north lebanon. in a daring errancy journey from his new headquarters into the sea or out of that managed to slip into tripoli in disguise and join. pro syrian palestinians responded immediately. i mean most. did. well betty body and carry it in for this to meet. the heavy it in. one of the. fine and not in. well. why did he well. enough see why shaaban finest cluny human home the defense of tripoli was led by artifacts deputies. that are known as abu jihad it's so they're not that of the syrian dissident this is he rejected the description of the ongoing battle as a purely palestinian affair you're seeing this out of what's think is that it's the bank from the syrian army you see you can look you can follow it it's. just the ferry was to the defeat of the instead of coming from the city i'm not a museum to them and they had to. sit in command but as you see. on a factual prominence kept up that tax they had the support among palestinians in the occupied territory. looking to meet with that and what

as i said and you took the word in july 2006 judgment if you don't under 50 its soldiers in south lebanon you ask if peacekeepers known as unison according to the script he considers a 17 a long and to make that mistake made shock some are because germany according to his a lot it's the closest european friend to you not and. your money is also as a one off the it on commercial partners with iran you know it's interesting germany does have those ties with iran mr schindler syria has condemned germany's decision today how big of a role is hezbollah playing in conflicts around the world such as the war in syria . well i mean as i think it's figured out and all of that is definitely indispensable force multiplier for the assad regime it is supporting the training operations on the ground there with manpower pretty much from with dot so it does play a very significant role in south america as my organization to counter extremism brought checked showed in the report 2018 is what it is very much involved in a massive amount of cigarette smuggling and commodity smuggling to find its is infected

dollars here in lebanon we've seen the same thing lebanon cities erupt against economic hardship one protester killed in tripoli banks have been a target of people angered by being frozen out of their deposits protesters in the southern city of siddhant chanting revolution petrol bombs at a central bank building inside its exterior on fire before smashing the fronts of banks and beirut dozens marched across the city somewhere in medical mass while chanting against the financial system and shouting for more lebanese to join later crowds her old stones toward security forces positioned in front of the central bank so at least they're identifying the underlying cantillon effect the cause of a lot of our economic crisis around the world is that there is a select group of people who get free fresh 0 percent interest rate cash they're allowed capital flight all of their cash got to be taken out of the country any soccer you know at the poker table this global neo liberal cantillon poker table they get trapped all their money is trapped inside the bank and they can't get it out but i. re re

we are not in the oil cage as some are thinking if we are in lebanon. having some problems in syria that will not put an end for the p.l.o. or for a palestinian state we are still alive every were. people who are still alive in our occupied territories facing the israeli occupation despite jordanian frustration many palestinians believe don i thought had accomplished a masterpiece to. a man but in the asset out of the man accords was a brilliant tactical maneuver executed by yes i refer that he used it to gain some breathing space he established relations with jordan signed the agreement and then abrogated it. he was expecting from the going to go down as one artifact himself he feigned ignorance as to want to go wrong but it seems that spite of all our efforts. to make just a bit is which will effect it in data or directly. to show that interest in their addiction. but i have to pay the price of his political move at an arab summit in amman in 1987 king hussein refused to receive the palestinian leader at the airport as well as this diplomatic snub the

to spread the word about the dangers of the coronavirus in the hospital and bustle of one of the lebanon's largest refugee camps. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us the corona virus infection rate in germany has again risen above the critical value of one that means one patient is now infecting more than one other person on average this comes after the government loosened many of the restrictions that have been in place for weeks but in several german cities thousands of protesters rallied against these restrictions accusing authorities of infringing on people's rights the demonstrations remained largely peaceful but there are concerns about the growing influence of right wing extremists. unfamiliar scenes for a country where large gatherings and close contacts of battles thousands defy distancing rosenstock got to protest the coronavirus restrictions families with children young and old. it's been young but i'm not because i think the restrictions of gone too far. more and i don't think wearing a face mask is necessary in order to rise i know it's clearly about limiting

i grew up in the civil war in lebanon and they were never really used. it wasn't that kind of conflict but it is accepted in our collective memory that we forget what it was like before. and that rivalry evolved and mutated over time with consequences that no one could have foreseen in 1979. now there has been a lot written i know that, but i am trying to present a different approach you will find a love of poetry and literature and cultural references because it's important to remember and humanize the region that has been devoid of context in the headlines so thi this isn't a bk about terrorism, it isn't a book about al qaeda or isis. it is and even about the dangers that the fundamentalists pose for the west. it's about everything that you have already read and seen on television. with all due respect to my colleagues even i sometimes because that is just the nature of our business and why i wanted to take a step back and write this book. this is the story of the people and they are very many whose basis hasn't necessarily been heard, who have been si

weeks of coronavirus restrictions have taken a toll on lebanon's already fragile economy food prices have soared triggering protests calling for the government to intervene but the need to contain the virus has trumped the looming financial crisis at least for the duration of the lock down lebanon's backward slide could be in store for other countries as they navigate their way through the pandemic temporary lock downs followed by reopening to avoid a 2nd wave of corona virus cases. so should we expect around the world william schaffner is professor of preventative medicine at vanderbilt university he joins us from nashville in the united states and welcome to do you expect more countries to be like having to deal with 2nd wave of infections. oh i'm afraid so this will be up and down up and down around the world including here in the united states however on rather skeptical that once we start to open up here in the us that there will be a reversion to lock down i think there will be a lot of resistance to locking us down once again it's difficult isn't it because. there is a politic

weeks of coronavirus restrictions have taken a toll on lebanon's already fragile economy food prices have soared triggering protests calling for the government to intervene but the need to contain the virus has trumped the looming financial crisis at least for the duration of the lockdown lebanon's backward slide could be in store for other countries as they navigate their way through the pandemic temporary lockdowns followed by reopening to avoid a 2nd wave of coronavirus cases. government to start a relaxing pandemic restrictions the film and t.v. industries are not having much luck in germany most filming has been put on hold throwing actors and writers directors and technicians out of work some however managing to soldier on. in the german t.v. series red roses life goes on as if the coronavirus pandemic had never existed but only when the cameras were rolling. i'm getting it behind the scenes new rules apply actors have to keep a distance of at least one and a half metres from one another put on their own makeup and wear face masks when the cameras are turned off. this is becaus

weeks of coronavirus restrictions have taken a toll on lebanon's already fragile economy food prices have soared triggering protests calling for the government to intervene but the need to contain the virus has trumped the looming financial crisis at least for the duration of the lockdown lebanon's backward slide could be in store for other countries as they navigate their way through the pandemic temporary lock downs followed by reopening to avoid a 2nd wave of coronavirus cases. south africa has banned the sale of a product that's considered essential alcohol the ban is part of some of the toughest restrictions anywhere in the world demand is still high however reported robberies of shuttered liquor stores but an increasing number of south africans are trying to get around the restrictions legally. in the township of lying out in cape town business for richard became year has been brisk despite the coronavirus pandemic at his progeny stand one item in particular is selling very well pineapples he sells 20 cases every 3 days even though the price has doubled since public wish to act

media to spread the word about the dangers of the coronavirus and the hustle and bustle of one of lebanon's largest refugee camps. and plans to restart the bundesliga suffer a setback that's after 2 players from 2nd division team dynamics president test positive for cope with 19. welcome to the show after weeks of closed shops and social distancing some here in germany have had enough protesters took to the streets in several cities on saturday to vent their anger at coronavirus restrictions the demonstrations brought out thousands and remained largely peaceful but authorities are worried about the growing influence of right wing extremists in the now weekly protests. this is a unfamiliar scenes for a country where large gatherings and close contacts abound thousands defied distancing rules and got to protest the coronavirus restrictions families with children young and old. it's been you know that i'm not because i think the restrictions have gone too far. more and i don't think wearing a face mask is necessary anymore i know that it's clearly about limiting civil liberties and i'm always

weeks of coronavirus restrictions have taken a toll on lebanon's already fragile economy food prices have soared triggering protests calling for the government to intervene but the need to contain the virus has trumped the looming financial crisis at least for the duration of the lockdown lebanon's backward slide could be in store for other countries as they navigate their way through the pandemic. temporary lock downs followed by reopening to avoid a 2nd wave of coronavirus cases. and take a brief look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world we'll start in israel where the swearing in of the new unity government has been delayed until sunday prime minister benjamin netanyahu yahoo asked his former rival and new coalition partner benny gantz for the 3 day delay mr netanyahu said he needs more time to finalize current appointments in his likud party. at least 5 people have died in a truck bomb attack in afghanistan the vehicle blew up near a military court in the eastern city of god dess wounding at least 20 others including civilians and military personnel

up their attacks against their wives and children during the credit virus curfews now one group in lebanon is stepping up a campaign to help the victims. well i'm terry martin welcome to the program countries across europe are marking 75 years since the end of world war 2 may 8th 945 is when allied forces accepted nazi germany's unconditional surrender because of the crown of pandemic many commemoration events have been scaled back or moved online in france president to mount a well the call is still taking part in an event on the show mostly say in paris though without the usual parade down the avenue. at the tomb of the unknown soldier but only a small group of doing this terry's work and extend its. d.w. correspondent lisa lewis is covering events for us in paris how is friends marking this occasion. well as you said is a very downsize ceremony happening at the seans easy in my mcleod the president of france is also laid down a wreath at. the who was the man in power in 1905 when nazi germany surrendered to the allies across france the other really small ceremonies happening may is allo

and find out what cash strapped lebanon is doing to stop smuggling across its borders. we have the prospects of record breaking may heat in the southeastern corner of year a probably got some very high temperatures into greece and into the further north behind this weather system here this weather fronts we have some much cooler air actually pushed up into scandinavia and in fame winds we have seen some very light snow this is the same in southern finland and we've had some snow all the way from the southwest right across into helsinki by day we are seeing temperatures getting up into double figures so will melt and gradually make its way further north was actually still a few showers just around the baltic states pushing up at the finland some showers there possibly was some snow mountain snow there for norway last dry across the british isles temps is around 70 or 80 degrees if you show us there how the other side of the mediterranean into eastern parts of spain pushing across the southern areas of france and maybe still a few showers just around the alps seasonal not

well their gross gross population of grubbers well we're seeing their impact in lebanon and this scene i'm going to show you we obviously do not condone any burning down of banks literally but i'm showing you the important moment that is the essentially the cyprus. this round of global financial collapse and this is an image from tripoli in lebanon banks set on fire in lebanon as currency crashes and hyper inflation events and we're going to show this little clip of a video with a guy with a we put a big coin over his face still call not mine he posted this and this is a video of a guy watching the bank on fire burning down and then calmly walking away and i think that's really important sense as a metaphor for what we have to look at with this global situation because we have financial collapse we have economic collapse and we have to stop going oh my god we need to save it we need to save it do anything fed do anything treasury we need to just calmly walk away and let that system die and move over calmly to our new big queen gold hard money the hardening we need to just step away cal

and many other places with the least startling applause that in economic conditions lebanon. and this is dented man and even before the 1st days on the point of a case of $120.00 between october and if you value or. reduce the developer's post has become at its lowest level since made it 11 or the people don't have access to that among the banks to do to have a $1000000.00 in the bank account you gotta have access to more than 1002000 dollars the month you have in banking it says you have it well it is nice as well as well we haven't with was this some just the month in $75.00 a month and not much is it was under 2 years of 11 mused civil war what was it was . when has. mission in lebanon is going to consist of the lebanese in the dark and sad especially don't kill enemies were and why kill our white collar if i may. pass this description of a working man jesus is most needy sot of the income generated by local and used is positive hardly any special those are high need it is usually used it negative benteke nonsense which we are witnessing with the spread of god almighty and

human rights watch is warning more than half of lebanon's people are at the risk of going hungry the government may be promising better days ahead but admits the road will not be easy. beirut. the u.k. says it's conducted more than $120000.00 coronavirus tests in a single day the government set itself a target of more than $100000.00 a day by may 1st it comes as the country's death toll rises to more than 27000 let's go live now to serious neve baka who's outside a testing center near london neve the government having beaten one target is set itself another this time involving contact tracing. yeah absolutely the government seems to like setting itself very difficult targets because only late on thursday it looked as if the government might be significantly missing out on reaching its target of 800000 tests a day was 18000 tests short yesterday evening but it seems to have broken that quite comfortably with over 122000 tests of course this is just the start these are the kind of tests that we've seen being used in a widespread way in many countries across europe and the british gover

lebanon location. i want to brighten up the place by putting in subway-tile walls and new light fixtures. a new counter and serving area will be built to improve and streamline the ordering process. new tables, new equipment, and new floors. in all, i'm spending $85,000 of the $350,000 i invested. it's a big renovation for a pretty small space. hey, guys. -mike: hey, how are you? -kathleen: hi! lemonis: i'm really excited to gather up the franchisees at market square. i want to show them the new look and the new name -- the simple greek. lemonis: so, this name came from a branding expert. kathleen: um, "simple greek"? i'm offended. mike: the feeling that i get is that when you say, "the simple greek," it's almost, like, condescending. like you're calling them somebody not too smart, like a very simple person, like a simple arse. it's a matter of semantics, if you will. lemonis: now, with all due respect, you're not greek. i'm greek. i'm not offended by it. i don't feel like you're calling me stupid. ka

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still ahead on al-jazeera lebanon's banks and governments play the blame game as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in history. as the u.s. state of michigan deals with historic flooding and the coronavirus pandemic we'll tell you why president trump is threatening to withhold funding to the state. for. how the temperatures are rising now in the arabian peninsula and the levant there is cloud in the sky which always suggests there could be showers thunderstorms one of 2 maybe in the iranian high ground and back in west and south in and yemen but it's not widespread to you there's not much breeze around so humidities up is fairly warm even hot and sticky in the u.a.e. in qatar up in kuwait dry a picture in baghdad will tempt you here 44 and still pretty warm in jerusalem representing what has been something of a heat wave in the southeast of europe turkey part of the front. south of all this now if you have a look at this cloud gathering you can't tell very much except when there is cloud gathering those thunderstorms are part of the system which of course is turning

now the situation has gotten dramatically worse due to the coronavirus epidemic lebanon's government has introduced a nighttime curfew most shops and businesses are closed and people are expected to stay home they're behind the facades there have been some terrible scenes of domestic abuse. but it got increasingly worse as he became more and more violent and he knew that i could not go to my parents because of the night the curfew everyone stays at home. because that 19 pandemic came at a time when lebanon was experiencing its worst financial crisis in decades the currency is struggling unemployment is on the rise and wages have been cut in some cases up to 50 percent aid organizations say many men are bringing their frustration and anger at home with them and taking it out and they wives ability to say that most women who get in contact with us are victims of domestic violence the situation is getting worse because of the curfew and economic and social pressure especially because the perpetrators are always at home no one there and there that's why the battle going as ation is stepp

lebanon is currently going through the worst economic crisis in its young history its currency is worth almost nothing prices are skyrocketing and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy then the coronavirus came along shops and restaurants were forced to close. lives with her 4 sisters 2 brothers and mother in a small apartment one of her brothers works for an aid organization he's the one who told her about the dangers of the virus and that is inspired her to help others she makes videos explaining the dangers and post them online a main message keep your distance. thank you with schools in shatila also closed nadira sent her homework on her mobile phone the qur'an a virus is causing a lot of uncertainty for her and her family. and especially on a small planet they get a crazy feeling when i think about the next. weeks they have already been cases and other refugee camps who knows what will happen here i really hope i don't lose anyone i lost because of the virus and i want to be the best in my class. a goal that makes the state of emergency that little bit easier to. hope that thin

and lebanon reopens but the new normal is not good news for business is struggling to survive. plenty of. much of indonesia but we're also watching this massive cloud you can see here this is just getting to the east of the philippines down the joint typhoon warning center also monitoring this it may develop into a tropical cycle but even if it doesn't it's going to say to the east of the islands for the next few days and that he produced some heavy amounts of rain through central and southern areas the rains also fairly heavy monday across much of central and western borneo and again through northern areas of sumatra the many peninsula picking up some have to downpours to lace in the day choose day but over a people form is what we will see on cheese days of rain developing throughout much of thailand where he coming in across from laos and really sitting for the next day or 2 so again we could have some heavy downpours and then to australia mostly fine and dry we've seen of course the systems work their way across the southeast and this one now will just really linger across

customs or habits and you've been in lebanon on a completely different situation to the ones we've seen in previous years can you give us a sense of how worshippers have been managing both during ramadan and now ensuring 8. yes so of course most of the. current. districts somehow they are facing 2 main. problems or crisis 1st of all the swine you mentioned the cup it 19 a pandemic and 2nd the financial economy and. social crises so all the combination of these crises made it easy to stay at home even. the most complete. small number of. the day. except today we witnessed some of these. 2. mosques but in very dull numbers. thank you for. well let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world well despite the threat posed by covert 1000 americans have been heading to the beach to celebrate memorial day weekend the holiday marks the unofficial start of summer in the u.s. president donald trump celebrated with his 1st round of golf since the pandemic broke and. fire has engulfed a warehouse on san francisco's iconic fisherman's wharf sending a thick plume of smoke ove

weeks of coronavirus restrictions have taken a toll on lebanon's already fragile economy food prices have soared triggering protests calling for the government to intervene but the need to contain the virus has trumped the looming financial crisis at least for the duration of the lockdown lebanon's backward slide could be in store for other countries as they navigate their way through the pandemic temporary lock downs followed by reopening to avoid a 2nd wave of corona virus cases. you know the new normal in an alcove lot. of the hospital here in berlin he's also director of the institute for public health in berlin there to court it's good to have you on the show what do you say are we now beginning this rollercoaster. it's a good question and i think it all depends on us and it depends on how the infection actually is turning out in the future i think that since we're opening up over the last days and weeks that the numbers have been stabilizing so i think that's a good that's a good news to to actually give to people we also have to understand that we need to focus very much on id

well crowds are gathering in beirut as anger only grows over lebanon's financial problems there have been calls for mass demonstrations on friday against the government and its handling of the economy on thursday the lebanese government approved the financial reform plan but leaders have been under pressure to act after months of public protests. in bahrain as i know. people have started to return to the streets now that the government has the lockdown that was imposed to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus people are angry their economic situation is only worsening living conditions 'd are worsening you talk to people here and there is really fear about the future a lot of uncertainty according to the labor minister on the occasion of the labor day she announced that 30 percent of registered companies have been shut down and that 20 percent of those companies have reduced the salaries of employees by half and i can give you other government figures on the social affairs minister is saying that 70 to 75 percent of the population of some 5000000 people need help 45 percent of